I just visited one of the treatment centres myself and had that very discussion with their management team. Of course, their challenge is that they're trying to prepare people for new vocational work and other institutional work, and these people have cognitive impairments or other mental health issues that prevent them from being able to do that work in a reasonable way.
We're also seeing a growing part of the population that's aging, and the process of incarceration itself exacerbates the aging process. So we're seeing more people who are having age-related cognitive impairments who also have the inability to become fully engaged in the coming regime of vocational training.
The range of skills required are the ones you can imagine, in terms of being able to listen to and follow instructions, timeliness and time management, health and safety--all the range of skills that you would want that would be transferable employment skills, really, in very many employment situations. One of the reasons, though, that this segment of the population has come into conflict with the law to begin with is because they don't have those skills. Many of them don't have the cognitive ability to gain those skills.
Again, you put them into a bit of a cycle where they're not eligible to participate in a program because they don't have the basic literacy or competency to get into the programs, and they don't have the cognitive ability to even get the educational upgrading. They're the ones who end up not progressing through the system and spending more time in higher security levels, and often because they act out, more time in segregation, etc. It's perverse, but often the most needy offenders are the ones who often receive the least intervention.